The Collected Letters of Emmeline Pankhurst
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This book is the first selected collection of Emmeline Pankhurst's letters, and offers new insights into her political career, transnational social networks and family relationships.
Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), was one of the most influential women of the 20th century. Charismatic, determined and a powerful orator, she was very much an activist who considered herself incompetent with a pen. Yet this selected collection of 150 letters compiled and carefully contextualised by leading gender historian June Purvis reveals a woman who could write well and vividly.
The letters focus on Emmeline's suffragette years, but they also provide glimpses into the First World War and the Women's Party, of which she was co-founder and co-leader together with her daughter Christabel. Collectively, they offer new insights into her political career, transnational social networks and family relationships. For example, she corresponded with socialist figures such as Philip Snowden and Sam Robinson; with suffragettes such as Caroline Phillips and Elizabeth Robins; with well-known liberals such as C. P. Scott, editor of The Manchester Guardian; with admirers such as Alice Morgan Wright and Alva Belmont; with male symphathisers such as Henry Harben and Hugh Franklin; and with her own family members.
This first collection of Emmeline Pankhurst's letters, some of them made available to the public for the first time, will be essential reading for academics and students interested in the history of the suffragette movement and modern British political history.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Editor's note
PREFACE: Helen Pankhurst
SECTION I: Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928: A life of activism
SECTION 2: The Letters
PART ONE 1885 to end of 1903: Early political life: the making of a feminist and the foundation of the WSPU
PART TWO 1904 to end of 1907: Deeds, not words: inspirational leader of the WSPU
PART THREE 1908 to end of 1910: Autocrat of the WSPU: personal sorrow and fortitude
PART FOUR 1911: Broken promises and betrayal
PART FIVE 1912: The women's revolution
PART SIX 1913: Agitator, prisoner and fugitive under the 'Cat and Mouse' Act
PART SEVEN 1914: Troublesome daughters, and outbreak of the First World War
PART EIGHT 1915 to end of 1918: War work and raising a second family
PART NINE 1919 to End of April 1928: Final years
SECTION 3COLLECTIONS CONSULTED
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Product details
| Published | Mar 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781350092105 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 16 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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